Speakers

Orla is a Senior Computational Biologist in Teagasc Food Research Centre, Ireland and Principal Investigator with VistaMilk and APC Microbiome Ireland (Science foundation Ireland Research Centres). Orla graduated from UCC with a BSc in Biochemistry and subsequently a PhD in Bioinformatics. She is scientific advisor with SeqBiome and sits on the scientific advisory board of Open Research Europe. Orla has a H-Index of 69 with over 25000 citations leading to a list as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. In 2019, she was awarded the highly prestigious SFI Early Career Researcher of the Year.  Currently she is vice-coordinator of EU project DOMINO and a partner on the EU project CoDiet. Her research focuses on elucidating the microbiome from various environments including human gut and lung, soil, rumen, and food. Of particular interest to her is the role of fitness and diet on the human gut microbiome both in healthy and diseased cohorts.